Re: Accounting for aggregated views

Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

>If I am an owner of the content that is syndicated in this way, my
>statistics will look rather skewed -- I can only see one hit every so
>often, and the fact that my content is viewed somewhere else by
>multiple viewers is completely hidden from me. Sounds mighty unfair,
>doesn't it? Almost like bootlegging.
>
>  
>
One would hope that the aggregator in question does something like what 
we've been doing with Bloglines since the beginning. The Bloglines 
crawler includes the subscriber count in the user-agent string we send 
with every request for a given feed. That makes it really easy for 
content providers to accurately track the number of subscribers they 
have on Bloglines (something you can't do with desktop aggregators).

Hope this helps.

Mark
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Mark Fletcher
Bloglines
http://www.bloglines.com


 
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